02591nam 2200577 450 991080733670332120200520144314.00-8173-8867-20-585-09802-6(CKB)111004368620814(EBL)1771108(SSID)ssj0000103993(PQKBManifestationID)11131520(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103993(PQKBWorkID)10069905(PQKB)11536691(OCoLC)44963219(MdBmJHUP)muse42647(Au-PeEL)EBL1771108(CaPaEBR)ebr10921696(OCoLC)889674976(MiAaPQ)EBC1771108(EXLCZ)9911100436862081419860702e19871957 ub| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnte-bellum Alabama town and country /Weymouth T. Jordan ; with an introduction by Kenneth R. JohnsonUniversity, Alabama :University of Alabama Press,[1987]©19571 online resource (193 p.)Library of Alabama classicsReprint. Originally published: Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, c1957.Includes index.0-8173-0333-2 Bibliography: pages [161]-165.Contents; Introduction by Kenneth R. Johnson; Preface; 1. Metropolis by the Sea; 2. A Black Belt Town; 3. A Black Belt Planter Family; 4. A Family Daybook; 5. Negro ""Pecularities""; 6. The Crusade for Agricultural Reform; 7. The Industrial Gospel; Bibliography; IndexAnte-Bellum Alabama: Town and Country was written to give the reader insight into importaant facers of Alabama's ante-bellum history. Presented in the form of case studies from the pre-Civil War period, the book deals with a city, a town, a planter's family, rural social life, attitudes concerning race, and Alabama's early agricultural and industrial development. Ante-bellum Alabama's primary interest was agriculture; the chief crop was King Cotton; and most of the people were agriculturalists. Towns and cities came into existence to supply the agricultural needs of the state and to procesLibrary of Alabama classics.AlabamaHistory1819-1950976Jordan Weymouth T.Jr.,1938-1645283MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807336703321Ante-bellum Alabama3991638UNINA